Quotes About Diversity

Åžtiu c? exist? un singur suflet, r?sfrânt în mii de atitudini trec?toare.

I entered a precarious profession where a short, fat, Jewish girl with no neck dared to think she could stand on a stage and be successful.

I've always wanted to know people. It's curiosity partly, because I can't imagine that people are different from me, and yet I can't imagine anyone being the same.

Ljudi su ljudi i sve je ljudsko samo ljudsko, nažalost!

Living toward a world in which these identities no longer divide, but living in a world fundamentally structured by them, Paul takes up and lays down various identities for the sake of the gospel. Though free, he has made himself a slave. For the sake of the gospel, he lives sometimes as one under the Jewish law, other times as one free from it—all while recognizing the truth of his situation as one no longer under "the law" but nevertheless under "Christ's law.

Contrary to the assumptions of Western moral traditions, human beings are (1) not free in their actions but governed by necessity; (2) not transparent to themselves and others in their motivations, but opaque; (3) not similar to each other and therefore subject to the same moral code, but each different.

We all have the same beginning - birth - and we all have the same end - death. So how different can we be?

But our eyes are different, what you see ain't what I see.

God sings, we hum along, and there are many melodies, but it's all one song - one same, wonderful, human song.

My mother was French Protestant, and my father was Italian Catholic, and their union was an excess of God, guilt and sauce.

All blessings do not bless the same.

The problem is that we don't believe that we are much alike as we are. Whites and blacks, Catholic and Protestants, men and women. If we saw each other as more alike, we might be very eager to join in one human family in this world, and to care about that family the way we care about our own.

If the only thing wrong with mosques, Lent, chanting, ?Mecca, confession, or reincarnation is that they're not yours- well maybe the problem is YOU

By the way, Reb, about the singing. What gives? Walt Whitman sang the body electric. Billie Holiday sang the blues. You sang…everything. You could sing the phone book. I would call and say how are you feeling, and you'd answer, "The old gray rabbi, ain't what he used to be…

The genius of life is its variety.

It's the blending of the different notes that makes the music.

The problem, Mitch, is that we don't believe we are as much alike as we are. Whites and blacks, Catholics and Protestants, men and women. If we saw each other as more alike, we might be very eager to join in one big human family in this world, and to care about that family the way we care about our own. "But believe me, when you are dying, you see it is true. We all have the same beginning—birth—and we all have the same end—death. So how different can we be?

If the only thing wrong with Moses is that he's not yours; if the only thing wrong with Jesus is that he's not yours; if the only thing wrong with mosques, Lent, chanting, Mecca, Buddha, confession, or reincarnation is that they're not yours - well, maybe the problem is you.

But everyone joins a band in this life. Only some of them play music.

The problem, Mitch, is that we don't believe we are as much alike as we are. Whites and blacks. Catholics and Protestants, men and women. If we saw each other as more alike, we might be very eager to join in one big human family in this world, and to care about the family the way we care about our own.

no religion was superior because they all brought people closer to God;

When a Catholic priest from across the street insulted one of our members, you demanded he apologize. When he did, you accepted, as his penance, a gesture. You waited until the Catholic schoolkids were in recess, playing in the schoolyard, then you and the priest strolled around the perimeter, arm in arm, showing that different faiths can indeed walk side by side, in harmony.

Ask yourself, 'Why did God create but one man?'" the Reb said, wagging a finger. "Why, if he meant for there to be faiths bickering with each other, didn't he create that from the start? He created trees, right? Not one tree, countless trees. Why not the same with man? "Because we are all from that one man—and all from that one God. That's the message.

But what if someone from another faith won't recognize yours? Or wants you dead for it? "That is not faith. That is hate." He sighed. "And if you ask me, God sits up there and cries when that happens